ArticleNature communications2024
Anomalous friction of supercooled glycerol on mica.
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- Quantum-Scale Friction at Solid-Liquid Interface: Simulation, Detection Techniques, Mechanisms, and Emerging Applications.Nano-micro letters · 2026Review
- Momentum tunnelling between nanoscale liquid flows.Nature nanotechnology · 2025Article
- Hydroelectric energy conversion of waste flows through hydroelectronic drag.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
Although friction of liquids on solid surfaces is traditionally linked to wettability, recent works have unveiled the role of the solid's internal excitations on interfacial dissipation. In order to directly evidence such couplings, we take advantage of the considerable variation of the molecular timescales of supercooled glycerol under mild change of temperature to explore how friction depends on the liquid's molecular dynamics. Using a dedicated tuning-fork AFM, we measure the slippage of glycerol on mica. We report a 100 fold increase of slip length upon cooling, while liquid-solid friction exhibits a linear scaling with molecular relaxation rate at high temperature. This scaling can be explained by a contribution of mica's phonons which resonate with density fluctuations in the liquid, allowing efficient momentum transfer to mica. These results suggest that engineering phononic spectra of materials could enhance flow performance in nanofluidic channels and industrially relevant membranes.
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